Give us a google maps sat view url so that we can see your house!
To go outside of this post for others who are planning a system.
If you want to see the whole property then you will need about 4 cameras facing straight out from the house. Line up the video shots so that the farthest right side camera has the video edge on the left side lines up with the next camera to the left so that you have a panorama per se.
Do the same with the 3rd and 4th camera as well.
Use 6mm lens to avoid distance distortion, and 60 feet of
IR.
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Your cameras are perfect!
If you were to tweak them a bit then here is what I would do.....
Camera C
I agree with 3RDIGLBL. This would be a great shot for a bank, or a dept store that wants a facial of a shop lifter. I would put the camera to the left of the door, facing to the right. I can see who trys to ring the door bell to see if we are home, and if no one answers then they go around back to break in. You can verify if packages were delivered. You can see if someone comes up to take said delivered package.
You get a free shot of your car in the driveway. A wide angle lens will give you the whole view, but because of distance distortion you will not get facial recognition if anyone tampers with the car/cars.
Now you can use a camera real close to the driver's side door as you can get for the facial shot!
Camera D
This is a bad shot. In winter when it gets dark earlier then you will get the head lights right in to the camera. Imagine every lost person who just happens to turn around in your driveway. Imagine the person who pulls up, and throws rocks/eggs/molotov and you have the headlights in the camera.
This needs to be more of a side shot. If you change this to a 12mm or higher then you can use this as a secondary camera and aim it at the drivers door. This needs to be moved closer. If the camera is a 60 foot
IR throw then it is only effective at the 20 to 30 feet distance.
Measure from the camera mount (to include camera height) to the area that you want to watch in the video. Double this distance for your
IR distance. A cheap
IR camera that has a 30 foot throw will be effective at 15 feet. Just the right distance with someone in your yard.
How far is the back bumper of your car compared to the camera mount area? If the 60 foot
IR is way too close then you will over illuminate the subject and not get a good video shot. (Photographers do this to hide pimple pocks, wrinkles, and other facial blemishes by over using the flash)
Camera B
This is good as long it is planned for this position. How far is the camera
IR throw? It is only effective at have of this distance. How far from the camera do you plan to look out in to the yard? A wide angle lens would tell you the whole story! Neighbor comes from their property onto your property, and performs some deed that you do not like. This would verify where they came from and what they did. You will not get a facial shot unless they are 5 to 10 feet with a 3.8mm or a 4.mm lens.
If you are going all the way to the gutter (the center line from the camera) then what is this distance? Double it for your
IR distance. You will need to match the lens to the distance. A 4mm and a 6mm is not going to work. A facial shot will require a higher mm number. I would use two cameras. One with the wide angle for full view, and the other for telephoto to get up in to the shot.
Camera A
This is good for a wide angle lens with wide throw
IR with the distance to match the area to be watched.
Camera E
This appears to watch the windows and perhaps a back door. Close up lens for facial is recommended here.
PTZ would be recommend from a sales person hat that I am wearing to make an extra buck.
The reality would be that I would only suggest it because of a high threat level.
1. You live in a very exclusive neighborhood.
2. You have a million dollars cash under your mattress (what is your address again)?
3. You have multiple low level threats. (you live in the hood).
I like a
PTZ to be a vari focal camera.
Everytime you have a new threat you can orient the camera in the direction needed, and then you can zoom in, or out to match the threat.
You just started a new business, and you are waiting for your new checks, and your bank card (credit/debit) to come in the mail. You can orient the camera to the mail box, and zoom in. When the threat is over then you can reorient the camera back to it's original position.
It is halloween and you are concerned about ???. Re orient the
PTZ to match that threat.
A car has been spotted doing something that they should not be doing.
You can orient the camera to catch a license plate going down the road.
Your neighbor went on vacation and asked you to watch their house across the street.
A dog keeps pooping in your yard and you want to know which neighbor's dog it is.
You landscaper keeps stealing your plants (and resells them to other clients).
See how it meets multiple threats? Now you can match a new threat that you never thought of down the road.
News flash there is a peeping tom on the loose. Point it at a window to give you security.
Cameras seem to chase off bad renters in a neighbor hood that is a nice neighborhood, but because the property changes as the elderly die off, or move, and children (adult age children) tend to rent the house out to anyone as the house is old, and needs thousands, and thousands of dollars to get back up to mint condition.
This is real common in our area of Florida. A neighborhood that was planned and built in the 80s, and now the community is full of retirees, and young familys, then all of a sudden you start seeing house for rent then all of a sudden one bad apple moves in and then the other good renters leave when the lease is up so that they do not have to deal with it and that leaves the home owners who have to deal with it everyday, and slowly the neighborhood goes down hill till the cops have to be called in because of the renters bad children, or the loud stereos that thump thump as they go by, and the trash, and god forbid if you get a drug dealer who leased there so that he "blends" in, but the traffic is the giveaway.
Talk to your neighbors. If they know about it in advance they might be on board. The safer the neighborhood appears the more resistance you get.
We have gated communities where an investor buys 2, 3, 4, or even more houses, and rents them out and get the section 8 benefits, and they have to rent to section 8 tenents!!!! This is a nice gated community people. Turn down the stereos, clean up your yard, pick up your trash, and reighn in your punk kids!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
See! The well to do have their problems too!
Talk to your neighbors. Plan it in a way where it becomes their "idea".
You never know. If they are extremely against the cameras then hide them in bird houses, dog houses, fake water pump houses, planters, and so on.